It was the same day 63 years ago on Aug 14th Aug late night that Indians had fought hard and got the independence to India But the At SNCG we were witnessing 2 teams playing for supremacy, pride and honor apart from the normal fun. It was also on the day of auspicious occasion of “nagara panchami” that the teams were trying to put their venom on opposition and played some real hard cricket.
Madhu played brilliantly in the second encounter and scored a fascinating fifty in a 6 over game was the highlight of the day with shower of luck from heavens. But nothing to take away from the spectacular hitting; the first 2 matches were played with only 6 people and fantastic four came an hour (oops along with some one special with dheera…Sudheera) later to join the troop an hour later as usual. The fourth match was getting into a good contest with MNM-X1 were 15 after 3 overs but on eve of school children getting prepared for Independence Day Celebration made sure there no more contest for the day and also they made sure wipro’s walk-in was successful.
MNM X1- Madhu, Nithya, Mohan [Prashant, Deepak]
[SUDHEER]
KHK X1- Karthik, Harish Jr, Kiran UK [Harish Sr, Srikanth]
[Late Entrants]
Match 1:
It is a joke to specify this as a match as even though it was a far better performance from KHK X1 than INDIA displayed against NZ last week. KHK won the toss and elected to bat. Karthik took the strike while surprisingly Madhu came to open the bowling attack. The intent behind, he bowling the first over was very funny which was the first of its kind that I have heard for a long time; quoted as said from madhu“ I am bowling well at the nets and am in rhythm so that I will continue” .. But whatever he kept his words giving only 4 of the over. Mohan came to bowl the second over and turned the match on its head by picking both karthik and in form Harish Jr in consecutive balls. First he hit the timber to roll the stumps to send karthik back to hut, and then he induced a false shot from Harish to get him caught and bowled. I came to bat and tried to rotate strike with 1’s and 2’s. The score was 12 when Madhu came to bowl again his final over. A juicy full toss which could have gone over anywhere in the field was hit straight to Man with the golden Arm at hat moment “Mohan” and he wasn’t in a any mood to leave anything.. He completed the catch to restrict KHK X1 to 12. Chasing 12 Madhu finished in hurry with 2 fours and six in 2 overs and showed the form he was in. Man of the match went to Mohan for his brilliant bowling performance
Match 2:
Once again the MNM X1 lost the toss but was put into to bat from KHK X1. And Madhu started the innings while karthik started the proceedings for the KHK X1. Madhu continued his golden form from his previous innings along with the much needed luck. As they fortune favors the brave whatever he touched was turning into gold. 10 of the first over and 14 of the second over (from Me ) but to everyone’s surprise Mohan dropped a catch (bad luck continued with KHK X1). Harish bowled a brilliant over next up giving away only 2 runs and at the half way mark it was 26 for Madhu as well as MNM X1.There was another chance provided to madhu with a missed stumping from Nithya by a whisker. Next 2 overs were again bread and butter for madhu as he scored a 15 of the karthik’s over and 8 of mine and was on 49 after 5 overs. It was raining 4’s and 6’s at the SNCG. Harish came back again and bowled another brilliant over giving away only a single of the last over of the innings. Madhu completed well deserved fifty and retired to give some opportunity for the others. But Nithya couldn’t score of the last 4 deliveries and stiff target of 51 was set to KHK X1. Chasing the daunting target, Harish Started off brilliantly with four of first delivery. But Mohan continued his trick once again getting Harish very early caught and bowled. Karthik came to crease and started playing brilliantly from the word go. He hit a huge six of Madhu and got the score to 22 of 3 overs. Karthik trying to hit nithya out of park couldn’t connect and nithya had the stumps reeling. Then it was my turn to get into battle. Got a boundary off nithya and few singles and twos. MNM required 24 of the last 2 overs and I could get few boundaries off madhu and we required 11 of the last over. Direct hit from Karthik from square leg ended my innings. Once again Bad luck haunted the KHK X1.
Match 3:
Once again It was KHK X1 who won the toss and elected to field first now with added members into the squad. Veteran Deepak & Prashant joined MNM while Harish Sr and pace man Srikant joined KHK. Srikant started off the proceedings while Madhu and Prashant came to bat. This time around it was perfect trio of Srikant, Harish (Sr and Jr) bowled brilliantly giving nothing away to the opposition and even the inform Madhu couldn’t do much and got out to trying to up the tempo. Only Deepak was stranded at the other end looking for the partners. Sudeer who was playing for both teams bowled a good over for KHK and batted for MNM. But It was all over in the 7th over when Harish got the stumps uprooted to end the innings. Chasing a modest target of 26, KHK opened with K square (Me and karthik) and Mohan started the bowling. We played cautiously until 3rd over with score being 9. By then Karthik got the call from home i.e. HM of sweet home (call to get back home soon) He responded brilliantly to the call from Mr. karthik, as he took on Prashant in the fourth over for a six and boundaries. By the end of 4 overs KHK required only 5 of the 4 overs. Nithya took the imp wicket of Karthik but by then the match was almost over. Harish who joined me completed the job to get the victory.
The fourth match was stooped in between due to Independence day rehearsal practice as said earlier. I wish you all the HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY and hope we would continue to think of the independent INDIA over and over again rather than celebrate it today and forget. As most of us are almost settled in life to some extend (there might never be a complete settling), I suppose it is time now for us to think in terms of what we can do to the society to improve the living conditions of millions of people who are struggling and underprivileged. Also its time to think of the problems growing pollution, Poverty, corruption .etc .etc (the list goes on)... and to come up with the solution.
Lets Remember all those Mahan atmas who gave away their life for us to play cricket today (of course other activities) without any concerns and India to be an independent Nation. Let’s hope we would be able to pass the rich heritage we had got to the next generation and work towards it.
Vande mataram….
BOLO BHARAT MATA KI
JAI
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